JAN. 6 HEARING Committee details pressure campaign on Pence to overturn 2020 election, shows vice president's life was 'in danger'

JAN. 6 HEARING Committee details pressure campaign  on Pence to overturn 2020 election,  shows  vice president's life was 'in danger' Former president Donald Trump’s closest advisers  viewed his last-ditch efforts to pressure  former vice president Mike Pence  to reject the tally of state electors and  overturn the 2020 election as  “nuts,” “crazy” and even likely to incite riots,  witnesses revealed in stark testimony to the Jan. 6 committee on Thursday. Gripping new evidence also detailed  how the mob that stormed the Capitol  that day came within 40 feet of  where Pence and his team were sheltering,  highlighting the danger Trump had put him in. John Eastman, a lawyer who advised Trump  and pushed the theory that Pence could  overturn the election,  asked Rudy Giuliani a few days after  the insurrection if he could receive  a pardon,  according to evidence  obtained by the committee. Read the full story.

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